Turkish Foreign Minister invokes Ottoman Empire as new order for Middle East - Jihad Watch

Turkish Foreign Minister invokes Ottoman Empire as new order for Middle East - Jihad Watch

Turkish Foreign Minister invokes Ottoman Empire as new order for Middle East
Davutoglu with the kaffir Secretary of State


And he said that the "last century was only a parenthesis for us." In other words, Turkish secularism was just an interregnum, and soon we will return to the imperial caliphate of the Ottomans. "Davutoglu Invokes Ottomanism As a New Order for Mideast," by Tulin Daloglu for Al-Monitor, March 10 (thanks to Joshua):

...Take Davutoglu’s recent remarks on two consecutive days, March 3 and 4 — as an example. First he claims that Turkey for the first time has finally been back to the lands that were lost during the Ottoman times, and he suggests that it’s time for Turkey to take the lead to set an order for these lands and re-connect them once again — “Without going to war, we will again tie Sarajevo to Damascus, Benghazi to Erzurum and to Batumi.”...
Here is why in his own words: “Last century was only a parenthesis for us. We will close that parenthesis. We will do so without going to war, or calling anyone an enemy, without being disrespectful to any border, we will again tie Sarajevo to Damascus, Benghazi to Erzurum to Batumi. This is the core of our power,” he said. “These may look like all different countries to you, but Yemen and Skopje were part of the same country 110 years ago, or Erzurum and Benghazi. When we say this, they call it 'new Ottomanism.' The ones who united the whole Europe don’t become new Romans, but the ones who unite the Middle East geography are called as new Ottomanists. It’s an honor to be reminded with the names of Ottomans, Seljuks, Artuklu or Eyyubi, but we have never or will ever have our eye on anyone’s land based on a historic background.”...

We'll see about that.